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Laurel Schlemmer, center, is escorted by Allegheny County sheriffs to court for the verdict in her murder trial, Thursday, March 16, 2017, in Pittsburgh. Schlemmer, charged with drowning her two youngest sons in their bathtub because she wanted to be a better mother to their remaining older brother has been found guilty but mentally ill of third-degree murder. Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning found that Schlemmer’s mental capacity was diminished by her illness so that she could not form the specific intent to kill required of the first-degree murder conviction prosecutors sought for the April 2014 killings. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Laurel Schlemmer is escorted by Allegheny County sheriffs to court for the verdict in her murder trial, Thursday, March 16, 2017, in Pittsburgh. Schlemmer, charged with drowning her two youngest sons in their bathtub because she wanted to be a better mother to their remaining older brother has been found guilty but mentally ill of third-degree murder. Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning found that Schlemmer’s mental capacity was diminished by her illness so that she could not form the specific intent to kill required of the first-degree murder conviction prosecutors sought for the April 2014 killings. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Kansas Supreme Court Justice Lee Johnson asks questions Thursday, March 16, 2017, during oral arguments in a legal fight over a state law banning a second-trimester abortion procedure and the larger question of whether the state constitution's Bill of Rights offered a fundamental right to an abortion. (Thad Allton/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP, Pool)
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Kansas Supreme Court Justice Carol Beier asks questions Thursday, March 16, 2017, during oral arguments in a legal fight over a state law banning a second-trimester abortion procedure and the larger question of whether the state constitution's Bill of Rights offered a fundamental right to an abortion. (Thad Allton/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP, Pool)
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Kansas Supreme Court Justice Dan Biles listened and asked questions Thursday, March 16, 2017, during oral arguments in a legal fight over a state law banning a second-trimester abortion procedure and the larger question of whether the state constitution's Bill of Rights offered a fundamental right to an abortion. (Thad Allton/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP, Pool)
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Stephen McAllister, representing the state of Kansas, gives oral arguments before the Kansas Supreme Court Thursday, March 16, 2017, in a legal fight over a state law banning a second-trimester abortion procedure and the larger question of whether the state constitution's Bill of Rights offered a fundamental right to an abortion. (Thad Allton/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP, Pool)
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Janet Crepps, senior counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights, argued before the Kansas Supreme Court Thursday, March 16, 2017, on behalf of Kansas City-area physicians Herbert Hodes and Traci Nauser for an independent recognition of the right of Kansas women to terminate a pregnancy and to affirm the district court's injunction putting the law on hold pending trial. (Thad Allton/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP, Pool)
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Winthrop's Keon Johnson (5) goes up for a shot against Butler defense during the first half of an NCAA college basketball tournament first round game Thursday, March 16, 2017, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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FILE - In this July 18, 2016 file photo, David Clarke, Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wis., speaks during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. A woman who was pregnant while detained at the Milwaukee County jail is alleging in a lawsuit against the sheriff that she was shackled while she was in labor in 2013. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, March 14, 2017, seeks class-action status, claiming there are about 40 other women who had a similar experience since 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite File)
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Police in Birmingham, Alabama, are still searching for a suspect accused of kidnapping a woman who escaped from the trunk of his moving vehicle Tuesday evening. (ABC News)
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Law enforcement work beside Silver Lake near an SUV that was found in the water with a baby inside in Highland, Ill., on Thursday, March 16, 2017. The infant is being treated at a St. Louis hospital after the car the child was in rolled into the lake. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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Firefighters and other emergency workers at the scene near Silver Lake, where a submerged SUV was found with a baby inside in Highland, Ill., on Thursday, March 16, 2017. The infant is being treated at a St. Louis hospital after the car the child was in rolled into the lake. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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Former Washington head NCAA basketball coach Lorenzo Romar, second from left, talks with players on the court, Wednesday, March 15, 2017, in Seattle. Washington fired Romar on Wednesday, after 15 seasons. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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File - In this March 18, 2010, file photo, people line up outside the Metropolitan Courthouse in Los Angeles. The chief justice of the California Supreme Court has asked federal agents to stop making immigration arrests in courthouses to protect residents' access to justice. Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye wrote to top federal officials Thursday, March 16, 2017, that she's concerned that recent reports of immigration agents going to the courts to track down immigrants for arrest will affect the public's trust in the court system. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye delivers her annual State of the Judiciary address before a joint session of the Legislature at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., in this March 23, 2015, file photo. The chief justice of the California Supreme Court has asked federal agents to stop making immigration arrests in courthouses to protect residents' access to justice. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE- In this Feb. 22, 2017 file photo, accused murderer Markeith Loyd looks toward family members during court proceedings in Orlando, Fla. State Attorney Aramis Ayala said, Thursday, March 16, 2017, that she had decided to no longer seek the death penalty in first-degree murder cases after conducting a review. The most visible case immediately affected by Ayala's decision is that of Loyd, who is charged with killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and Orlando Police Lt. Debra Clayton. (Red Huber /Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)
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In a press conference Thursday, March 16, 2017, on the steps of the Orange County Courthouse, Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala announces that her office will no longer pursue the death penalty as a sentence in any case brought before the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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In a press conference on the steps of the Orange County Courthouse, Florida Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala announces Thursday, March 16, 2017, that her office will no longer pursue the death penalty as a sentence in any case brought before the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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In a press conference on the steps of the Orange County Courthouse Thursday, March 16, 2017, Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala announces that her office will no longer pursue the death penalty as a sentence in any case brought before the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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In this Feb. 10, 2017, file photo, then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn sits in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Documents released in a congressional inquiry show Flynn was paid more than $33,750 by RT, Russia’s government-run television system, for appearing at a Moscow event in December 2015. Flynn had retired months earlier as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
